Examples

The RIN revolt started on 18th February when 1100 naval ratings of HMIS Talwar struck work at Bombay to protest against the treatment meted out to them - flagrant racial discrimination, unpalatable food and abuses to boot.

The next day, ratings from Castle and Fort Barracks joined the strike and on hearing that the HMIS Talwar ratings had been fired upon which was incorrect left their posts and went around Bombay in lorries, holding aloft flags containing the picture of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

HMIS administrators such as Michelle Budzek, who facilitates the Hamilton County Continuum of Care in Ohio, said the data systems are useful to agencies and that they can be designed to protect victims of domestic violence.

"It's true this isn't worth one life, but when you understand just how secure these systems are and the kind of data that would be available if some rocket scientist could manage to crack this, you would see that HMIS (Homeless Management Information Systems) provides a more secure data-collection and reporting system than currently exists," Sullivan said.

In response to a Congressional mandate to obtain an unduplicated count of homeless people in America, HUD has asked service providers, including homeless and domestic violence shelters, food banks, housing authorities and law enforcement to input client information, including name, date of birth, social security number, and temporary residence, into the Homeless Management Information System HMIS – a computerized database to track people who are homeless.